BOB HOPE QUOTES

On Turning 70:
You still chase women, but only downhill

On Turning 80:
That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.

On Turning 90:
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake

On Turning 100:
I don't feel old. In fact I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.

On Giving Up His Early Career, Boxing:
I ruined my hands in the ring... the referee kept stepping on them

On Never Winning An Oscar:
Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover'

On Golf:
Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees

On Presidents:
I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six

On Why He Chose Showbiz For His Career:
When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, 'Congratulations. You have an eight-pound ham'.

On Receiving The Congressional Gold Medal:
I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it

On His Family's Early Poverty:
Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother

On His Six Brothers:
That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom

On His Early Failures:
I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me

On Going To Heaven:
I've done benefits for ALL religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality